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The process behind a colouring book design

20 Feb 2019

I'm excited to be working on some designs for a North East colouring book. Some of the locations that I am drawing, I've already sketched out so I thought it would be a good idea to share the process with you.

As I said in an earlier blog post, I want some of the locations to be less obvious than the well known landmarks. Last year I took an hour out to do some sketches at Plessey woods in Northumberland. One of those sketches was the road bridge that takes you over the river Blyth. I loved the reflections in the water and the structure of the bridge.

I almost always take a phone pic of the scene that I've sketched. For reference in case I want to do anything more with the view. So for this design, I had the photo and the sketch for reference.

Drawing a colouring in design means you have to simplify a lot of the detail, especially in trees and foliage. My designs tend to have a lot of space for colourists to do their own shading if they like.

I enjoy seeing the different versions side by side here and it would be interesting to see a coloured in version of the design next to them as well.

I now have an author page on Amazon, so you can view all of my colouring books in one place!

Thank you for reading, and if you'd like to find out more about my design process, you may like this article about preparing a colouring book.

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Welcome to my art blog!

I studied A-Level art at school and carried on painting watercolours on and off for a few years after. Since becoming self-employed in 2009, I have had time to paint more and develop and practise my painting. I was predominantly painting in watercolours but recently have tried acrylics again. I also love drawing in pen, finding it to be more defined and bold than sketching in pencil.

I'm really excited to have an author page on Amazon now! - you can view all of my colouring books in one place.